One SDR, Six Flight Trackers: Running an ADS-B Feeder on Kubernetes
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Aircraft broadcast their position, altitude, and callsign on 1090 MHz, unencrypted, about twice a second. A cheap RTL-SDR dongle can hear them. I plugged one into a NUC, pointed the output at my Kubernetes cluster, and two weeks later that one dongle feeds six flight tracking networks and a set of Home Assistant sensors.